76, the violence is wanton and its momentum is killed (II)

Fierce battles! Crazy slaughter!

When Guo Yan's army took off their shoes, rolled up their trousers, carried armored soldiers on their backs, led their horses, and carefully waded across the river in the shallow water area of the lower reaches of Fenshui, the Hedong soldiers and horses that had been defeated by the advance of the army reappeared.

Moreover, the number of Hedong soldiers and horses who made a comeback has increased exponentially, and the heads of the remy horse are densely packed, and the army looks like there are no less than 10,000 people!

The army of Guo Yan who crossed the river has been divided into three batches, the first group of men and horses have crossed the river, the second group of men and horses are stuck in the water, and the third group of men and horses are looking at each other across the Fen River.

Everything is in line with the taboo of being attacked by the enemy army halfway.

Therefore, when they saw the "Yan" character rising from the distant hills, no matter which batch of soldiers they were in, they all fell into boundless panic!

Fierce battles! Crazy slaughter!

As soon as the battle was triggered, the former soldiers and horses who crossed the river to attack the enemy and were repairing in place were quickly squeezed to the edge of the Fenshui by the soldiers and horses in the east of the river.

From the beginning, the ratio of the three corpses of the Xiliang soldiers poured into the Fenshui to the corpses of one Hedong soldier, to the later, the ratio of one Hedong soldier to the ten corpses of the Xiliang soldiers, and then to the end, the Fenshui is dense, floating and sinking with the corpses of the Xiliang soldiers, and the water downstream of the Fenshui does not flow!

The army of more than 20,000 people, the fierce general Guo Yan in the Xiliang Army, and the generals Gao Shuo, Xia Yu, and Wu Xi under his command, were all lost in the land east of the river······

Closing the military newspaper, Li Dao, who was sitting in the tent, quickly withdrew from the picture of his brain just now and returned to reality.

"Uncle, what happened to General Guo's army?"

Seeing Li Dao looking at the military newspaper and falling into contemplation for a long time, Li Xian, Li Li, nephew Hu Feng and others were all in a hurry, they all heard that Zuo Feng Yi sent an urgent news, and it was also related to Guo Yan's army that invaded Hedong, and they all twisted their thoughts and speculated, but they didn't expect Li Dao to be silent, and they didn't dare to disturb these juniors.

After waiting for a long time, Li Li finally risked being scolded and asked the question that everyone wanted to know.

Hearing this, Li Wei glanced at Li Li, snorted coldly, and finally spoke.

"Two days ago, Guo Yan led the army to cross Fenshui in the north, and encountered Yan Yan's men and horses when he crossed halfway, and the two armies fought a decisive battle in the lower reaches of Fenshui.

Ho!

After hearing the news that Guo Yan's army was wiped out in the lower reaches of Fenshui, Li Li, Li Xian, Hu Feng and others were in an uproar, accompanied by a shaking sound of nail leaves, almost everyone gasped.

Some people are excited, some people are horrified.

But after this violent emotional jump, a more pressing question came to their minds.

Next, how to fight the battle on the Tongguan side?

In the past month or so, Hongnong's Duan Xuan has been pressed and beaten by Li Wei's army, and the reinforcements from Hedong only helped stabilize the situation in Tongguan, but it did not play any role in turning the tide of the war.

However, the terrain of Tongguan is dangerous, and Li Wei's superior forces, especially the Xiliang cavalry under his command, are difficult to have the opportunity to display their skills and fully deploy, which leads to the fact that although Li Wei's army has won consecutive battles, it cannot break through the barrier of Tongguan's eastward advance.

As far as the past is concerned, the usefulness of confronting Duan Xuan's army and Hedong's reinforcements under Tongguan is to bite the large part of the troops in front of them to the death, and create an opportunity for Guo Yan's army, which has broken through the Dahe defense line, to sweep Hedong.

But now, the army of Guo Yan who invaded Hedong has been completely annihilated, so they will have no effect if they spend a lot of time, food and grass under Tongguan.

Even, some well-intentioned people are already thinking about what kind of changes will happen to Sanfu's pattern after the fall of Guo Yanjun.

All this depends on the decision made by Li Dao in front of him.

Facing the eyes of many juniors, Li Wei groaned and got up and ordered:

"Order, all the departments in the army pack up tonight, and when the day is right tomorrow, the whole army will pull out the camp and retreat, and the two soldiers and horses of Li Xian and Hu Feng will be used as the rear army to fight in the city."

When Li Dao said this, he looked at Li Li and the others again, sneered, and continued:

"Let's turn around and go to Zuo Feng Yi!"

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Hedong, Fenyin, Dongting.

Yan Xing is now leading a main force of 5,000 horsemen and stationed here.

In the battle in the lower reaches of Fenshui, the decisive battle was not as easy as Li Wei thought.

Although Yan used a small force to resist the river interception beforehand, and then lured Guo Yan's army to cross the river by deception, Guo Yan's army was still extremely cautious about the suspected main force in Hedong, and still temporarily divided his troops, choosing to wade across the river in two shallow water areas downstream.

Moreover, Guo Yan also sent cavalry to the upstream to block the water and reduce the flow, inspect the river bank, and prevent the soldiers and horses from being blocked and then dug in the upper reaches of the river.

Therefore, when Yan Xing led the main force of cavalry to suddenly appear and attack the army crossing the river halfway, although Guo Yan's army shook up and down, the means of defense taken were still very timely.

The forward men and horses of Guo Yan's army crossing the river quickly lined up on the high ground on the river bank to wait for the enemy, and the soldiers and horses trapped in the river stepped up to cross the river under the command of the military officials, while the soldiers and horses that had not yet crossed the river quickly detoured to another shallow water area, preparing to cross the river from there, and then roundabout to attack the main force of the east of the river.

The grain, goods, and livestock that had become a burden were left in their place, leaving only a small number of soldiers to guard them.

The tragic battle was quickly staged on the riverbank, Yan Xingqin led a large array of cavalry to squeeze and drive away the forward of Guo Yan's army to cross the river, and Gan Ling and other generals led a light cavalry to drive along the river and shoot those Xiliang soldiers who were still trapped in the water and truded hard.

Guo Yanjun naturally did not want to sit still, and the forward men and horses who fought in array resisted desperately, and even launched a Jedi counterattack at one point, while the Xiliang soldiers who crossed the river braved arrows and waded forward in order to successfully land and merge into the stubborn resistance.

The rear army, which quickly detoured to another shallow water area to cross the river, went ashore one after another, preparing to make a roundabout attack on the rear road of the Hedong cavalry, and had a fierce battle with the Hedong cavalry.

The elongated battle lines are staggered, and the fierce battles can be seen everywhere.

Under the command of Yan Xing, the main force of Hedong's cavalry advanced slowly but firmly in this fierce battle.

The fierce battle lasted until the formation of Guo Yan's forwards was chiseled by the combined efforts of the main force of Hedong, and it was finally over.

The defeated Guo Bian's army was driven back into the turbid and bloody Fenshui, and the Guo Bian's army, which wanted to make a roundabout, was also unable to support it alone, and fled in rout.

The Hedong soldiers frantically tilted the arrow rain towards the chaotic Xiliang soldiers who were crowded in the water, and half of their bodies were immersed in the water, and the struggling Xiliang soldiers were killed and wounded.

And at this time, the banner of Hedong soldiers and horses also appeared on the south bank!

In the end, after a massacre, the heads of Guo Yan, as well as the heads of his generals Gao Shuo, Xia Yu, Wu Xi and others, were successively presented to Yan Xing as dazzling military merits, and the corpses of Guo Yan's defeated soldiers were piled up in the Fenshui, which did not make the Fenshui flow for a time.

Yan Xing, who fought a beautiful battle of annihilation, did not get carried away, he did not care, he only left the auxiliary soldiers who cleaned the battlefield, and took the main force to ride south, and pursued the remnants of Guo Yan's army fleeing from the Fenshui battlefield, and strived to clear the remaining enemies in Hedong within three days.

The main force rode all the way south and came to Dong Pavilion in Fenyin.

Here, Yan Xing, who temporarily repaired the men and horses, joined the Hedong soldiers and horses from Anyi.

Since Guo Yan's army retreated from the city of Anyi, although the conservative and cautious Yan Zhu, Yan Xing and others did not attack, they also took the opportunity to quickly send envoys to contact the reinforcements from all walks of life who came to rescue Anyi.

After Jia Kui, Zhao Hong, Zhai Hao, Ma Lin and other reinforcements from Hedong, Henan, and Hanoi gathered under the city, Anyi also sent two generals, Zhai Hao and Ma Lin, to lead 6,000 soldiers and horses to Fenyin, in order to cooperate with the main force of Yan Xing, who had rushed back to Hedong and garrisoned Pi's, to annihilate the retreating army of Guo Yan.

However, because of the temporary decision of Guo Yan's army, they turned north and encountered Yan Xing's main force riding horses who were preparing to pursue south, and a major battle between the two armies in the lower reaches of Fenshui broke out in advance.

This also led to the fact that other Hedong soldiers and horses were not able to keep up with the rhythm of the war and missed the highlight of the Battle of Fenshui, until Yan Xing led the army to defeat Guo Yan's army, and Zhai Hao, Ma Lin and other generals who were a day late led the army to arrive in a hurry.

Fortunately, the winner of this Hedong defensive battle was still Yan Xing's side.

After seeing Zhai Hao and Ma Lin, Yan Xing couldn't help but have a headache after learning more about the more detailed Hedong defensive battle.

The results of this great battle were brilliant.

Hedong opened up the northwest border, supported Huchuquan to return to its position, and rescued Hongnong Duanxuan, although the main force was delayed, Hedong still mobilized and gathered all its forces to resist the menacing Guo Yan army that broke through the defense line of the river.

Later, after the main force returned to Hedong, he successfully annihilated Guo Yan's army.

The Hedong side successively made breakthroughs in the northwest, south, and west, especially in the two major events of obtaining the Southern Xiongnu as an ally and annihilating Guo Yan's army, and the results were brilliant.

But the cost is also dearly.

The defense line of the Great River was broken, and Niu Hu and the Fenyin guards were killed; Biqiuxing was defeated with his troops, and the Hedong Boat Division was completely destroyed; Many cities in the south were tragically looted, and Zheng Duo was killed tragically by Xie County; The county magistrate was besieged and was about to fall for a time.

In these three defeats, Hedong lost a huge amount of military and civilian population, grain, grass, baggage, wealth, and livestock, and it was difficult to make up for it within a year or two.

The current situation in Hedong is like a fierce beast that has risen up and successfully counterattacked, although it seems to be majestic and amazing, but in fact, it has reached the point of exhaustion and the end of the crossbow.

However, Yan Xing still has to maintain his strength now, in order to stabilize the external situation and internal people's hearts, and at the same time, he must also reward and punish the civil and military ministers in the Hedong defensive war as soon as possible, and reconstruct and restore the county economy and people's livelihood destroyed by the war······

All of these things are very tricky and troublesome things.

Yan Xing sighed, the troubles after the great victory hit his heart for the first time.